Tag: climate change

As Pakistan drowns, as Puerto Rico is cast into darkness, and as Jacksonians remain thirsty, it’s past time for a climate tax on fossil fuel companies.

Big Oil lied to us for decades about climate change.

We need a mass movement that can deal with climate disasters by training people to both protect and mobilize their communities.

Climate change rendered these communities and countless others across the country vulnerable to increasingly frequent and powerful storms.

Instead the company’s Canadian arm developed a communications plan to make climate solutions like carbon taxes look economically reckless.

Despite claims of transitioning to cleaner energy, internal emails and documents obtained by a congressional investigation show oil companies trying to protect their fossil fuel investments through public narratives that conflict with private communications.

There is a long history of PR firms creating and spreading climate disinformation in order to block climate policy and promote fossil fuel interests.

According to the company, this move is in large part because of the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Biden signed into law this month to help combat climate change.

Economic inequality helps generate such wide temperature differentials.

Barre Seid has funded climate denialism as well as a national network of state-level think tanks that promote business deregulation and fight Medicaid expansion.